Example Sentences

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Researchers believe the species' long, curved claws and its ability to strongly flex them would have made it an efficient grasper of vegetation.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2025

In two lines you have a portrait of Milligan as a self-aggrandizing grasper and Burger as the justifiably confident voice of authority.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

Giulianotti asked for forceps, a hook, and a grasper, and the nurses attached them to the robot’s appendages.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2019

Gilroy once again cast Russo, his wife, as a well-heeled, coreless grasper: Her gallery owner, Rhodora Haze, is an ex-punk who’s reinvented herself as a “purveyor of good taste.”

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2019

That foxey old grasper and griper—' 'Mr Boffin?' inquired Venus, with a glance towards the alligator's yard or two of smile.

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles